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On Monday, October 21, updates for the critical Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812) vulnerability were released again

On Monday, October 21, updates for the critical Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (CVE-2024-38812) vulnerability were released again. Wait, haven’t fixes for this vulnerability been available since September 17th? They were, but it was not enough. “VMware by Broadcom has determined that the vCenter patches released on September 17, 2024 did not completely address […]

Alexander V. Leonov
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On Monday, October 21, updates for the critical Remote Code Execution – VMware vCenter (****CVE-2024-38812****) vulnerability were released again****. Wait, haven’t fixes for this vulnerability been available since September 17th? They were, but it was not enough.

“VMware by Broadcom has determined that the vCenter patches released on September 17, 2024 did not completely address CVE-2024-38812. The patches listed in the Response Matrix below are updated versions that contain additional fixes to fully address CVE-2024-38812.”

If you are using VMware vCenter, please take note and update it again. Current secure versions of VMware vCenter Server are 7.0 U3t, 8.0 U2e and 8.0 U3d.

Updates are also available for the VMware Cloud Foundation.

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